News:
July 3, 2018
Second Deputy Minority Whip and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ada, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe Ghansah has called on the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection Otiko Afisa Djaba to ensure that all aged are catered for.
According to the Ada MP, about seventy percent of aged are discriminated against when it comes to administering the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty Programme (LEAP).
“They say they are looking for extremely poor and select only a few and leave the rest, if the Ministry is targeting the aged please allow all those who think they are poor and cannot take care of themselves because a lot rush to register but only few are selected”, he lamented.
She further noted that chunck of the aged are left unattended to and added that in her constituency there are a lot of complains, “is it because those elderly people leave in good houses, but they do not have money and people to take care of them”?
Again you would have an elderly person who had given birth to ten children, as they are aged their children cannot come together to look after them, they leave them in the village and run to Accra and other cities to work.
She made this remarks when the Minister for Gender Children and Social Protection made a statement on the floor of the House, to celebrate senior citizen day which falls on the 1st of July every year.
Mrs. Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe Ghansah urged the Minister to take not and capture the seventy percent of elderly people who are discriminated against, as the elderly need to be celebrated and taken good care of.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com